The issue of mobile phones is a hot potato and schools are thinking about which way works best. Many schools have a system that allows students to hand in the cell phone in the morning and get it back at the end of the school day, others allow students to hand it in at each lesson.

See many question marks

In 2021, a new law will be clubed where mobile bans in classrooms will become a reality. Torbjörn Ott, who is a PhD in applied IT with a focus on educational science at the University of Gothenburg, sees many question marks about how the issue of mobile phones is handled.

- I'm not sure that the school will be a protected zone for the introduction of a mobile ban. This would probably mean that students start to snuggle more with the phones and that it will be much more difficult to talk to students about how they can take control of their use, he says.

"Teach students about digital skills"

He believes more in other models.

- Absolutely not that everything should be allowed, but you have to work much more consciously with this than you can with a ban. The community outside the school is full of this technology and then we have to equip the students to live in that world.

But is it really the school's job to teach students how to use the cellphone properly?

- It depends on what you mean. It is not the school's job to teach students how to use an app, but if you look at what a mobile phone is, there are clear writings in the curricula that the school should teach students about digital competence. And in society, the mobile phone is the most common digital tool available, so it is very strange not to include the mobile phone in that work at school.